A polar vortex collapse occurs when the strong, cold winds that normally circulate around the Arctic or Antarctic a weaken and break apart, allowing frigid air to spill southward into lower latitudes.

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

Due to colder temperatures and isolation from mid-latitudes by the polar vortex (a strong system of wind near the Earth’s polar regions), the atmosphere above Antarctica is particularly vulnerable to ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

The 2024 State of the Global Climate Report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) revealed atmospheric ...

and the polar vortex. For the study, the team used simulations of the Earth's atmosphere under different conditions and compared these to observations of how ozone in the Antarctic stratosphere ...

This is not an uncommon sentiment, with the media commonly attributing extreme cold events to human activity, particularly during episodes of bitter cold or polar-vortex events ... South Africa and ...

It is currently spring in Antarctica. Scientists from the German ... of UV radiation and monitors the displacement of the polar vortex. Likewise the station also sends balloons with ozone and ...

A recent study confirmed that the Antarctic ozone layer is currently healing ... as opposed to natural weather variability – such as El Niño, La Niña, or the polar vortex – or the effects of rising ...